Essex Woodlands Health Ventures

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Last activity: 06.12.2016

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1985

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Nov 8, 2016	Term Sheet — Tuesday, November 8	Et cetera I’m going to take a wild guess that many of you are reading Term Sheet from a long polling line. Here’s a few news items to help you pass the time: Paid Content What you need to know about growing cyberattacks From ExtraHop I thou...
Oct 28, 2016	Healthcare Private Equity Firm Essex Woodlands Closes Fund IX, at $543.1M	Healthcare private equity firm Essex Woodlands closes its latest fund, at $543.1m. According to a regulatory form filed with the SEC, Essex Woodlands Fund IX, L.P., was subscribed by 25 investors. The doc lists Managing Directors Petri Vain...
Nov 4, 2013	Healthcare startup with noninvasive, one-time wet AMD treatment touts two years of success	Anti-VEGF therapy proved to be a major breakthrough in treatment for wet AMD. The drugs could halt the progression of the disease and even recapture some lost vision, Taylor said. But the drugs are a chronic therapy. “The patient should go ...
Nov 1, 2013	OrbiMed closes its largest VC fund, predicts rebound in healthcare investing in 2014	Looking back 5 to 6 years, healthcare venture capital funds raised $7.8 billion, but last year they only raised $2.5 billion. Silverstein and Carl Gordon, a partner and co-head of global private equity, told MedCity News they anticipate ple...
Dec 13, 2011	IntegenX Secures $40M in Series C Funding	IntegenX Inc., a Pleasanton, CA-based developer of rapid human DNA identification technology and DNA sequencing library preparation systems, has secured $40m in Series C funding. The round was led by new investor Essex Woodlands, with parti...
Sep 6, 2011	BreatheAmerica Closes $22M Series B Equity Financing	BreatheAmerica, a developer and manager of centers for patients suffering from allergies, sinusitis and asthma as well as diseases related to the immune system, has closed a $22m Series B equity investment. The round was led by Essex Woodla...
Feb 8, 2010	Ex-CoreValve CEO Lemaitre launches medical device equity fund	Dan Lemaitre, the former CEO of CoreValve Inc., will head up Essex Woodlands Health Ventures’ new medical device fund, White Pine Medical. Last year Medtronic Inc. (NYSE:MDT) spent about $700 million, plus a possible $150 million more, buyi...
Mar 31, 2009	A large health fund (Essex VIII) closes and a major health investor (Google) emerges	An Essex release said it will “ primarily make growth equity investments in companies with a rapidly expanding revenue base and venture investments in companies with breakthrough technologies.” Those investments will be as large as $75 mill...
Mar 25, 2009	Neovista sees $18M to treat eye disorders	Neovista, a Fremont, Calif.-based biotech company specializing in eye diseases, says it raised $18 million in a fourth round of funding to commercialize its new device. The money came from Accuitive Medical Ventures, Carlyle Group, Essex Wo...
Nov 4, 2008	Medlogics to pump $30M into coronary stents	Santa Rosa, Calif. medical developer Medlogics has announced a $30 million fourth-round of funding from UBS AG that will close in the first quarter of 2009. The money will go toward marketing its new bare-metal stent, a device that props op...
Oct 27, 2008	Xanodyne newest pharm co. to cancel IPO	Xanodyne joins a growing number of biopharmaceutical and life science companies calling it quits on going public, at least for now. The Newport, Ky.-based firm withdrew its filing on Friday, citing poor market conditions — it had been waiti...
Jan 11, 2008	Secretive Oraya raises more funds for eye devices	Oraya, a secretive Menlo Park, Calif., medical-device startup, has struck again. The company raised $18 million in what is presumably a second funding round, VentureWire reports (subscription required). Investors included Synergy Life Scien...
Jul 24, 2007	Horizon Therapeutics: Combining generic pain meds for greater drug safety	Palo Alto, Calif.-based Horizon Therapeutics, a biotech that aims to combine existing generic drugs to fight pain, raised $30 million in a third funding round. The company’s lead drug candidate, known only as HZT-501, is a “proprietary” com...
May 11, 2007	StrataGent closes $16M round for needle-free injections	StrataGent Life Sciences, a San Jose developer of needle-free “microjet” injection systems, said it closed a $16 million second round of financing. The company has so far received $6.65 million of that round; the remainder should become ava...
	A large health fund (Essex VIII) closes and a major health investor (Google) emerges	Essex Woodlands Health Ventures has closed on $900 million – one of the largest ever for a health-care-only fund, according to The Wall Street Journal. At the same time, the search giant Google revealed its long-expected venture arm. Its po...
	Healthcare startup with noninvasive, one-time wet AMD treatment touts two years of success	Oraya Therapeutics, one of California’s many healthcare startups, has distinguished itself from the crowd. The medical device company recently presented results from a two-year study showing its IRay, a low-voltage, stereotactic, radiosurgi...
	OrbiMed closes its largest VC fund, predicts rebound in healthcare investing in 2014	OrbiMed has closed its largest venture capital healthcare fund to date as two partners predict a resurgence in biotech investment next year. The robust reception biotech initial public offerings have received this year is fueling this trend...

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FAQ about Essex Woodlands Health Ventures

When was Essex Woodlands Health Ventures founded?

Essex Woodlands Health Ventures was founded in 1985.

What has the press written about Essex Woodlands Health Ventures?

Parsers VC has collected 18 articles mentioning Essex Woodlands Health Ventures, among them “Term Sheet — Tuesday, November 8” (Nov 8, 2016) and “Healthcare Private Equity Firm Essex Woodlands Closes Fund IX, at $543.1M” (Oct 28, 2016).

Is Essex Woodlands Health Ventures still active?

Yes, Essex Woodlands Health Ventures is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Dec 6, 2016.